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The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

by: Eva March Tappan

Publication date: 2020-10-04

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: librivox, audiobooks, explorers, Indians, Washington, Independence, Puritans, Native Americans, Mayflower, settlers, Lafayette, colonies, pocahontas, salem, boston tea party

Language: English

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LibriVox recording of The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States by Eva March Tappan.

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This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part XII compiles stories about the early history of the United States, starting with the first explorators, the fights with the native Americans, the early settlers and culminating with the struggle for independence from the European leaders. - Summary by Sonia

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01 - Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece

1.4M

02 - The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note

9.6M

03 - The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas

2.4M

04 - Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller

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05 - Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)

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06 - The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note

9.9M

07 - Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober

12.5M

08 - A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca

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09 - The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto

15.9M

10 - When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving

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11 - The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving

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12 - The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note

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13 - The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske

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14 - How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden

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15 - How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis

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16 - The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis

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17 - The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note

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18 - The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft

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19 - The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey

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20 - John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith

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21 - Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122

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22 - The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston

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23 - Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan

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24 - The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136

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25 - How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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26 - The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note

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27 - When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton

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28 - The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160

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29 - The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis

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30 - The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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31 - The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174

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32 - Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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33 - How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft

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34 - The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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35 - Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot

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36 - The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note

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37 - The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske

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38 - How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis

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39 - Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis

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40 - Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving

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41 - The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218

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42 - How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving

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43 - William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan

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44 - Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238

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45 - The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note

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47 - Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan

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48 - The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier

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49 - How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur

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51 - Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske

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52 - The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note

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53 - The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott

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54 - The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300

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55 - The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself

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56 - The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister

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57 - The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman

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58 - The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake

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59 - The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note

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60 - Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield

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61 - Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft

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62 - Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske

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64 - The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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65 - The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry

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66 - The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note

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67 - Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston

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68 - Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske

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69 - Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall

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70 - An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding

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71 - The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow

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72 - The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note

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73 - Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton

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86 - How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett

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38 - How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis

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42 - How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving

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52 - The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note

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53 - The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott

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55 - The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself

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56 - The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister

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57 - The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman

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58 - The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake

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59 - The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note

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60 - Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield

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61 - Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft

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64 - The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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72 - The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note

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78 - The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note

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79 - The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale

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01 - Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece

1.2M

02 - The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note

8.2M

03 - The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas

2.1M

04 - Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller

11.4M

05 - Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)

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06 - The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note

8.5M

07 - Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober

10.7M

08 - A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca

5.7M

09 - The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto

11.3M

10 - When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving

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11 - The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving

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12 - The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note

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13 - The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske

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14 - How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden

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15 - How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis

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16 - The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis

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17 - The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note

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18 - The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft

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19 - The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey

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20 - John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith

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21 - Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122

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22 - The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston

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23 - Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan

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24 - The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136

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25 - How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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26 - The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note

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27 - When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton

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28 - The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160

8.2M

29 - The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis

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30 - The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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31 - The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174

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32 - Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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33 - How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft

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34 - The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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35 - Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot

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36 - The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note

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37 - The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske

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38 - How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis

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39 - Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis

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42 - How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving

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43 - William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan

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48 - The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier

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51 - Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske

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52 - The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note

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53 - The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott

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54 - The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300

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55 - The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself

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56 - The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister

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57 - The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman

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58 - The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake

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59 - The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note

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60 - Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield

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61 - Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft

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62 - Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske

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63 - When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody

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64 - The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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65 - The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry

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66 - The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note

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67 - Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston

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68 - Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske

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69 - Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall

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70 - An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding

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71 - The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow

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72 - The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note

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73 - Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton

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74 - The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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75 - The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske

2.2M

76 - Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456

5.2M

77 - ''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry

1.9M

78 - The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note

17.1M

79 - The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale

10.6M

80 - Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

9.4M

81 - When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge

12.2M

82 - How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft

1.9M

83 - The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494

7.4M

84 - The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

3.4M

85 - Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch

14.1M

86 - How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett

6.0M

87 - Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske

1.9M

88 - The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale

12.6M

89 - Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske

2.2M

90 - The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note

11.2M

91 - How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour

16.8M

92 - A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark

8.2M

93 - How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

5.9M

94 - The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett

28.5M

95 - John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley

1.6M

96 - The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588

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